Exploring the Second Language Mental Lexicon

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Exploring the Second Language Mental Lexicon
Authors and Contributors      By (author) David Singleton
SeriesCambridge Applied Linguistics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:360
Dimensions(mm): Height 227,Width 152
Category/Genre Languages
ISBN/Barcode 9780521555340
ClassificationsDewey:428
Audience
ELT / TEFL
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 15 Printed music items

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 11 February 1999
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This volume does not offer a complex perspective of the L2 lexicon, but rather represents a sustained attempt to answer some very basic questions clustered around the relationship between the L2 mental lexicon and the L1 mental lexicon. It provides a review of L1 and L2 lexical research issues such as similarities and differences between the conditions of L1 and L2 acquisition, the respective roles of forming and meaning in L1 and L2 processing, and the degree of separation/integration between L1 and L2 lexical operations.